Recent Publications, Theses, Articles, Papers, Posters, etc. from or involving the SMIRC

2009
Hesler, L.S.  2009.  An annotated checklist of the lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Iowa, U.S.A.  Insecta Mundi, 0091: 1-10.

Ladybugs of South Dakota.  2009.  Poster by The Lost Ladybug Project


2008
Majka, C.G. and P.J. Johnson.  2008. The Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: faunal composition, new records, and taxonomic changes.  Zootaxa, 1811: 1-33.

Boe, A. and P.J. Johnson.  2008.  Seed predation by Acanthoscelides submuticus and A. pallidipennis (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) in False indigo in the northern Great Plains.  South Dakota Academy of Science, 87: 223-228.

Boe, A. and P.J. Johnson.  2008.  Seed predators of Canada Milk-vetch and their parasitoids.  Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, 87: 229-236.

Johnson, P.J., G.H. Larson, and D. Deneke.  2008.  A Guide to the Common Native and Exotic Thistles of South Dakota.  South Dakota State University, Extension Publication ESS1500.

Kinicki, D.  2008.  Invasive Grasses Induce Bottom-Up Biodiversity Reductions by Insects in Northern Tallgrass Prairie.  M.S. Thesis, South Dakota State University, Brookings, 109p.

Backlund, D.C., G.M. Marrone, C.K. Williams, and K. Tilmon.  2008.  Population Estimate of the Endangered American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus Olivier (Coleoptera: Silphidae) in South Dakota.  The Coleopterists Bulletin, 62(1): 9-15.

Hesler, L.S. and R.W. Kieckhefer.  2008.  An annotated and updated species list of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of South Dakota.  The Coleopterists Bulletin, 62(3): 443-454.

Johnson, P.J.  2008.  How to Control Aphids.  ORCHIDS, Bulletin of the American Orchid Society, 77(8): 581.

Johnson, P.J.  2008.  Mealybugs on Orchids.  The Arizona Orchidist, 44(12): 5-9.


2007
Gabel, M.L., P.J. Johnson, G.E. Larson, D.J. Ode, H.A. Downing, and G.M. Kostel.  2007 (2008).   South Dakota’s Natural History Collections: an endangered teaching and
research resource.  Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, 86: 71-82.


2006
Westcott, R.L, J.R. LaBonte, G.W. Parson, and P.J. Johnson.  2006.  New records and other notes for Oregon Coleoptera.  Zootaxa, 1142: 1-33.

Johnson, P.J. and S.B. Peck.  2006.  Family Elateridae, Click Beetles, pp. 168-172.  In S.B. Peck, The Beetles of the Galapágos Islands, Ecuador:  Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity (Insecta, Coleoptera).  National Research Council Press, Ottawa, 313p.

Johnson, P.J. and G.A. Samuelson.  2006.  Additions and notes to the Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Hawaiian Islands.  Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, No. 88, pp. 22-24.

Samuelson, G.A. and P.J. Johnson.  2006.  Callirhipidae, a new family to the Hawaiian beetle fauna.  Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, No. 88, pp. 44-45.


2005
Okins, K.E. and P.J. Johnson.  2005 (2006).  Spider biodiversity at Oak Lake Field Station, Brookings County, South Dakota.  Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Sciences, 84: 171-180.


2004


2003
Johnson, P.J. and D. Deneke.  2003.   Biocontrol Insects of Canada Thistle in the Northern Great Plains.  South Dakota State University, Extension publication ESS65.


2002
Johnson, P.J.  2002.  Lectotype designations for Elateridae (Coleoptera) described by George C. Champion in the Biologia Centrali-Americana.  Dugesiana, 9(1): 15-46.


1998
Johnson, P.J.  1998.  Melanotus cete Candèze, a second adventitious species of Melanotus Eschscholtz in North America (Coleoptera: Elateridae).  Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 74(2): 118-119.


1997
Johnson, P.J.  1997.  A South Dakota record for Nepa articulata Uhler (Hemiptera: Nepidae).  The Prairie Naturalist, 29(1): 50.

Johnson, P.J.  1997.  New Distribution Records for Three Throscidae (Coleoptera) in South Dakota.  The Prairie Naturalist, 29(1): 51-52.